Symposium of Contemporary Music, 2012

Illinois .Wesleyan University School ofMusic PRESENTS

Guest C'omposer

Shulamit Ran March 8, 2012 Westbrook -Auditorium Presser Hall

Symposium of Contemporary Music 2011-12

Jewish Culture and Arts March 8, 3012

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4PM

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Panel Discussion·

Dr. Ran Irving Esptein, Associate Dean of the Faculty and Professor of

Educational Studies

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Gordon Horwitz, Associate Professor of History David Vayo, Professor of Composition and Theory,

moderator

This.program is presented as part of the lWU New Music Series. _

To receive notifications of Series events via email, contact David Vayo, Series director: dvayo@iwu.edu;

Music ofShulamit Ran March 8y 2012

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8PM

East Wind

. Lynn Buck, flute

first movementfrom Three Fantasy Pieces Nina Gordon, violoncello Nancy Pounds, piano.

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Sonatina ,

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Allegretto Adagio Vivo Sarah Bencomo, Michelle Brecunier, flute Perfect Storm

Michael Hall, viola Hyperbolae

John Orfe, piano Soliloquy

Lisa Nelson, vi.olin Nina Gordon, violoncello Joy Doran, piano Shirim l'Yom Tov (four Festive Songs)

Shiru l'Adonai Yom ha-Shishi Ma Tovu Hatzneia Lechet University Choir Jonathan Green, conductor

Many thanks to Brian Russell, U Choir director. for preparing the choirfor this performance.

Following the program, the audience is invited to . a reception in the Presser Hall reception room, . courtesy ofSigma Alpha Iota This program is presented as part ofthe IWU New Music Series To receive notifications ofSeries eve1'lts via email, contact David Vayo, S.eries director: dvayo@iwu.edu.

Shulamit Ran Shulamit Ran, a native of Israel, began setting Hebrew poetry to music at the age of seven. By nine she was studying composition and· piano with some of Israel's most noted musicians, including composers Alexander Boskovich and 'Paul Ben-Haim, and within a few years was having her works performed by professional musicians and orchestras.

As the recipient of scholarships from both the Mannes College of Music in New York and the America Israel Cultural Foundation, Ran continued her composition studies in the United States with Norman DelIo Joi? In 1973 she joined the faculty of University of Chicago., where she is now the

Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Music. She iists her late colleague and friend Ralph Shapey, with whom she also studied in 1977, as an important mentor.

In addition to receiving the Pulitzer Prize in 1991, Ran has been awarded most major honors given to composers in the U.S., including two fellowships from th� Guggenheim Foundation, grants and com­ missions from the Koussevitzky Foundation at the Library of Congress, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fromm Music Foundation, Chamber Music America, the American Academy and Institute for Arts and Letters, first prize in the Kennedy Center-Friedhe,im Awards compe­ tition for orchestral music, and many more.

Her music has been played by leading perf9rming organizations including the Chicago Symphony under both Daniel Barenboi� and Pierre Boulez, the Cleveland Orchestra under Christoph Von'Dohnanyi in two U.S. tours, the Philadelphia Orchestra under Gary Be(tini, the Israel Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta and Gustavo Duaamel, the New York Philharmonic, the American Compose(s Or<::hestra, The Orchestra of st. Luke's under Yehudi Menuhin, the Baltimore Sy�phony, the National Symphony (in Washington D.C.), Contempo (the Contemporary Chamber Players) at the University of Chicago under both Ralph Shapey . and Cliff Colnot, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Jerusalem Orchestra, the vocal ensemble Chanticleer, and vario,us ,others. Ran's . chamber and solo works are regularly performed by leading ensembles in the U.S. and elsewhere, and recent vocal and chora� ensemble works have been, receiving performances internationally.

B�tween 1990 and 1997 she was Composer-in-Residence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, having been appointed for that position by Maestro Daniel Barenboim as part of the Meet-The- Composer Orchestra Resid�ncies Program. Between 1994 and 1997 she was also the fifth Brena and Lee Freeman Sr. Composer-in-Residence with the Lyric Opera

of Chicago, where her residency culminated in the performance of her

first opera, "Between Two Worlds (The Dybbuk)" .

. Ran served as Music Director of "Tempus Fugit", the International.

Biennial for Contemporary Music in Israel in 1996, 1998 and 2000.

Since 2002 she has been ArtistiC Director of Contempo (Contemporary

Chamber Players of the University of Chicago), and in 2010 she was the Howard Hanson Visiting Professor of Composition at the Eastman.

School of Music. Shulamit Ran is an elected member of the American .

Academy of Arts and Letters, where she has recently completed a 3-year term as Vice President for Music, and of the American Academy of

Arts and Science. Most recently she was the Paul Fromm Composer in .

Residence at the American Academy in Rome from September-December.

2011. Ran is the recipient of five honorary doctorates; her works are pub­ lished by Theodore Presser Company and by the Israeli Music Institute,

and recorded on more than a dozen different labels.

SHIRIM L'YOM Tov (FOUR FESTIVE SONGS)' Hebrew texts are public domain.

English translations Š Bruce Ruben; reproduced by permission ofthe translator.

I. Shiru l'Adonai Haeil Adonai,

God, our ruler,

Borei hashamayim,

Who created the heavens,

Notein n'shama laam,

Who gave breath unto the people,

Ani Adonai

I, your God,

Kraticha v'tzedek

Have called thee ih righteousness,

L'v'rit am

And made thee a covenant people,

Tor goyim.

A light of the nations.

Shiru l'Adonai shir chadash.

Sing unto God a new song.

Shiru t'hilato

And God's praise

Mik'tsei haaretz,

From the end of the Earth;

Yordei hayam shiru,

You who go down to the sea,

Hayam um'loo iyim v'yosh'veihem,

And all that is therein,

Shir chadash t'hilato.

The isles, and the inhabitants.thereof,

Shiru l'Adonai shir chadash.

Sing unto God a new song

- Haftarah Bereshit, Isaiah 42

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II. Yom ha-Shishi Vaihi erev,

And there was evening,

Vaihi voker

And there was morning.

Vayar Elohim asher asa.

And God saw that it was good.

Vayar Elohim

And God saw everything that was made,

Et kol asher asa.

And, behold, it was very good.

Vaihi voke�,

And there was evening,

Vayar ki tOY.

The sixth day.

Vay'cpal Elohim

And God completed, "

Bayom hasvii, m'lach'to

On the seventh day, the work

Asher asa.

Which God had made,

Vayish'bot bayom hashvii mikol

And rested on the seventh day

M'lach'to aher asa.

"From the work of creation.

Vaivarech Elohim

And God blessed the seventh day,

Et yom hasvhii

And hallowed it,

Vaika deish ot kivo

Because in it God rested"

Shavat mikol m'lach'to.

From all the work.

-Haftorah Bereshit, Genesis 1, 2 III. Ma Tovu Ma tovu ohalecha

Haw fair are your tents,

Ya'akov,

o Jacob,

Ma tovu mishk'notecha

Your dwellings,

Yisraeil.

o Israel.

- Parashat Bala;k, Numbers 24 IV. Hatzneia Lechet Do justice;

Asot mishpat V'ahavat chesed,

Love mercy;

V'hatzneia lechet

Walk humbly;

lin elohecha.

With your God.

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-Haftorah Balak, Micah 6

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University Choir Brian Russell, Director Jonathan Green, guest conductor SOPRANO

ALTO

Helen Alex

Melissa Fuesting

Chelsey Belt

Jennifer Black Julija Bozenovaite Nora Buckingham

Qirigfan Jiang Yingying Kuai Jialti Li

Sarah Menke

Lauren Burke

Lisa Mishra

Jennifer Burns

Staci Phipps

Stephanie'Cesaroni'

Theoni Richa�dson, .

. Cassandra Coglianese

Jensin Roberts

Ashleen Davey

Michelle Stanbary

Clara Ehrhart

Kristin Fields " Kathleen Fincher Jackly n Klimczak Ainsley Klug

Leanne Lyden

Hannah McCoy

Juliean�e Sthay Janna Strain

Anna Wegener

BASS Ryan Brown

Doug Burrichter

Nicole Meyer

Lucas Fletcher

Megan Morissette

Andrew Havel

Maddeline Mueller

Stefan Riley Conor Strejcek

Allison Perlongo Hayley Robinson Margaret Stanielun Andrea Tucci Kelsey VonderHaar

TENOR Robin Basu Ralph Pineda Luke McLoughlin Ian Stewart Matthew Teeling

Aaron Wooqsteih

e"lmposium ot 'TaontempO'l:at:"I �usic Guest Composers Perfonners Scholars •

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1952-2012 1952: Earl George, Grant Fletcher,

Burrill Phillips

1985: Michael Schelle 1986: Jean Eichelberger Ivey

1953: Anthony Donato, Homer Keller

1987: Jan B<l:ch

1954: Normand Lockwood,

1988: John Beall

Robert Palmer 1955: Wallingford Riegger, Peter Mennin 1956: Hunter Johnson, Ulysses Kay 1957: Ernst Krenek, William Bergsma 1958: Aaron Copland

1989: Hale Smith 1990: Karel Husa 1991: Alice Parker 1993: 1993:

(Fall) Leslie Bassett,

1959: Paul Pisk, George Rochberg

John Cra�ord (Societ' y of

1960: Roy Harris

Composers,

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Inc. Region 5 Conference)

1962: Robert Erickson, George Rochberg,

1995: David Diamond

Glenn Glasow

1996: Morton'Gould Memorial Concert

1963: Robert Wykes,

Alabama String Quartet 1964: Robert Wykes, E. J. Ulrich,

Salvatore Martirano, Herbert Briin, Ben Johnston 1�: Louis Coyner, Edwin Harkins,

Philip Winsor, Edwin London 1967: Frederick Tillis, George Crumb 1968: lain Hamilton 1969: The Loop Group, DePaul University 1970: Halim El-Dabh, Olly Wilson 1971: Edward J. Miller 1972: Stravinsky Memorial Concert 1973: Courtney Cox, Phil Wilson 1974: Scott Huston

1997: Joseph SchwaiJ.tner 1998: Arvo Part 1999: John Corigliano 2000: Libby Lars�n 2001: William Bolcom, Joan Morris 2002: Present Music 2003: Mario Lavista,

Carmen Helena Tellez 2004: Louis Andriessen, Jrunes Quandt,

Monica Germino,Cristina Zavalloni 2005: Vince Mendoza 2006: New York New Music Ensemble 2007: Stephen Paulus 2008:

1975: David Ward-Steinman 1976: Donald Erb 1978: M. William Karlins .

1981: Waltet: S. Hartley 1982: David Ward-Steinman .1983: George Crumb Concert 1984: Robert Bankert: Abram M. Plum,

R. Bedford Watkins

(Spring) Roderik de Man, Annelie .de Man (Amsterdam)

2008:

1977: Lou Harrison, Ezra Sims 1979: Leonard B. Meyer

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(Spring) Alexander Aslamazov

(Fall) John Sharpley, Orchid Ensemble

2009: ONIX (Mexico City) 2011: Yang Xiaozhong, Song Mingzhu,

Zhou Tianli (Sichuan Conservatory of Music) 2012: Shulamit Ran